Bread recipes

Over the coming months we will be adding a selection of recipes, bread, sweet rolls, fruit and nut bread, bread, bread, including Almond, Apricot and Walnut Loaf, fruit bread and Banana Bread. Recipes and Cooking advice for a range of white bread, including bagels, baguettes, Cottage Loaf, focaccia, French bread, Indian naan bread.

Basic bread recipe

As a rule, knead 300ml of water per 500 g of flour a stiff dough and a smooth, even texture, ideal for a traditional farmhouse cob.

Bread recipes

Pile the flour onto a clean surface and a large well in the center. Pour half the water in the well, then add your yeast, sugar and salt are added and prick with a fork.

So the difference of 50 ml of water, barely four tablespoons is the difference between dense, firm and elastic dough, floppy dough.

Before commercial yeast was available, a baker would use a bubbling mixture of yeasts and bacteria (yeast) to both aerate the crumb and give a sharper taste the wheat.

Put it in a bowl with clingfilm and leave it for show, about half an hour, until doubled? Ideally in a warm, moist, draft-free place. When the dough has doubled to knock the air for 30 seconds by bashing it and squashing it. This is the most important part, because it will prove the second the air eventually ends up in your bread is cooked, so you really easy, smooth texture that we all, with fresh bread, love. You can tell if it's cooked by tapping the ground? A hollow sound when it's done, if it doesn't pop again for a little longer.

This is a great bread for sandwiches made with ham or cheese for the ultimate Toastie. If you want to try your hand at baking bread, here are some recipes that are to get you started, from basic research to savoury saffron bread loaves and rolls puff pastry.